Word: local
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of Dubćek's allies to make amends with pro-Moscow conservatives after the invasion, was ordered by the Central Committee to form a new government. Its membership, announced this week, reflected the hardliners' virtually total control. The purge extended to the local political level; the Prague city party committee was stripped of every remaining Dubćek loyalist. Five more liberals "resigned" from the Czech National Council, and the parliamentary immunity of a sixth, Rudolph Vattek, was lifted, apparently to open the way for his trial for "attacking the policy of the socialist state...
Claiming that he could not read the dismissal order without his glasses, he sent a secretary out of the room on the pretext of fetching them. The secretary promptly telephoned the local radio station, and while most Cipolenos were at their midday meal, they heard a broadcast describing the "reprehensible outrage." Quickly they rallied to support Salto, an obstetrician who since 1963 had vastly improved the city's school, water and sewer systems, set up neighborhood medical dispensaries and won wide popularity...
...long-awaited heavyweight fight between Ex-Champion Muhammad All and Joe Frazier, who is recognized as the champ by six states, nearly came off last week on a Philadelphia street. After quarreling with Frazier on a local TV talk show, ALI (who lost his title after refusing induction into the military) lay in wait outside the studio. When Frazier emerged, Ali hit him in the shoulder with a long, looping right. Before followers could restrain both fighters, Ali threw another punch that fell short. "If Clay gets a license to fight, we'll fight him," Frazier's manager...
Almost $3 billion in bonds that would have financed public construction-including a new school for Hondo and a modern hospital for Iron County-have proved totally unmarketable. Probably a much greater total of bonds has not been scheduled for sale because local officials fear that they would find no buyers. Michigan voters, for example, last year approved two issues totaling $435 million to finance antipollution and park-building programs, but state authorities have never tried to set a date for investment-banking houses to bid on them. They have reason for their timidity. About half of the investment-banking...
County, Fla., and fears of flooding in Clinton Township, Mich., because not enough storm sewers are being built. State and local governments spend roughly $26 billion a year to build schools, hospitals, roads, sewers, airports and the like, and last year they raised almost $11 billion of the sum by selling bonds. So far this year their bond sales are running 26% below that pace...